Location: How to travel - Virtual Trip to Antarctica

On this tour you may travel with MOD scheduled flight from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, or travel by commercial air to join one of the BAS ships, RRS James Clark Ross or RRS Ernest Shackleton.

If you are flying with the MOD, the flight will go via Ascension Island, before moving on to the Falkland Islands. This journey takes around 20 hours. Occasionally, if the weather is poor in or en route to the Falkland Islands, you may get a stopover at Ascension Island.